City officials say they’re as prepared as they possibly can be for an anticipated accumulation of slushy snowfall through Friday.

Taunton can expect four to six inches throughout the day Friday, according to the National Weather Service.

“We’re just holding off to see what happens,” Jackie Lawrence, a supervisor with Taunton’s Department of Public Works, said Thursday afternoon.

Lawrence said the DPW’s eight-man streets division crew had already been out dropping ice-melting salt.

Unlike the previous blizzard known as Nemo, when a foot and a half of heavy snow accumulated, Lawrence doesn’t expect snowplows will be called into action.

But he said he’s somewhat concerned about winds.

“If that happens and the wind drives it (snow) off and it turns cold, then it’ll stick,” Lawrence said.

Marilyn Greene, director of Parks Recreation and Cemeteries, said her six-person crew has been responding to residents calling to report large tree branches that have been felled by wind gusts.

Fallen branches are a major cause of power outages.

“It’s a tedious job, and we’re trying to keep up,” she said.

Greene credits independent contractors and especially Taunton Municipal Lighting, who she said continues lending assistance with the aid of one of their bucket trucks. She said her department currently lacks a person trained to climb and cut down tree limbs.

Charlie Roley, a meteorologist with the Taunton office of the National Weather Service, said this marks the fourth significant storm of the winter.

Roley predicts the storm will decrease in strength through Friday night and begin “moving away” out to sea before the end of the weekend.

In the meantime, a wind advisory remains in effect until 7 a.m. Friday and a storm advisory until at least 1 p.m.

Asked if there was a chance of a fifth major winter storm in 2013, Roley said, “Who knows. Every storm is different.”

Greene said she feels badly for those Taunton homeowners who have said how heartbroken they were to lose trees on their property. She also said it’s going to take more than a few weeks to gather and remove all of the fallen branches and trees.